V/A "Best of Jamaican R&B: Jamaican Blues Beat 1" AMS OPERATION IVY

OPERATION IVY

” It’s a heartfelt

It's all buoyed along by O'Brien's clever musical pastiches of rock & roll

Phantom Chords Records presents the first domestic US release of Demented Are Go’s 1989 studio barnburner originally released on Link Records in the UK

Gwen's brother who was in the band at the time)

V/A "Best of Jamaican R&B: Jamaican Blues Beat 1" AMS OPERATION IVYAn installment in a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the 2015 re launch of the label. Shortly before the advent of Ska, Jamaica rocked to a sound variously known as Jamaican Blues, Shuffle Blues, or Blues Beat Influenced by U. S. musicians such as Rosco Gordon and Fats Domino, the style emphasized the off beat and laid the foundation for the Ska sound of the early sixties Features 12 classic tracks from Desmond Dekker,